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September 17, 2013 Taking things forward September 17, 2013: The last weekend wasn’t a very busy one. I went to Kolkata Zoo on Friday to finalise the formalities of adopting the yet-to-be-named youngest Royal Bengal tigress …
September 15, 2013 India’s wildlife genocide Last week apart from the headlines of Narendra Modi, Delhi rape case and US DolIar, I came across a small piece of news in the media that one of the …
September 13, 2013 At Soumitra da’s art exhibition September 13, 2013: I was busy last week for a number of events that were lined up one after another. Yesterday was the inauguration of “Forms Within” the exhibition of …
September 10, 2013 Recipe Rendezvous takes off September 10, 2013: From yesterday morning we started another series with t2 named “Recipe Rendezvous”. After a very successful series of Authors Afternoon and Tete-a-Tea, this new series is in collaboration with Madhu …
September 8, 2013 Raising standards For many years now, I have been staying at various five star properties at home and abroad, including some of the biggest hotel chains in the world. I have been …
September 6, 2013 Satyanweshi premier September 6, 2013: Monday onwards, the current week, I have been occupied in office work. It is mostly desk work during the daytime and various overseas conference calls in the …
September 1, 2013 Krishna’s holiday leela! Last week I was in Jaipur scheduled to host a dinner at the Polo Club on August 28 evening. Then I came to know that Wednesday was Janmashtami and hence a …
August 30, 2013 Pandit ji’s `home coming’ August 30, 2013: I returned from Jaipur yesterday. The Jaipur trip was mainly for the second Prabha Khaitan Foundation Memorial lecture held at the Marriott on the evening of August 28, …
August 24, 2013 Madras Cafe special screening August 25, 2013: Yesterday evening, and few hours ago, I organized a second-day special screening of Shoojit Sirkar’s political action thriller Madras Cafe at the Fame South City Mall on Saturday. The director, …
August 23, 2013 Author’s Afternoon with Javed Akhtar August 23, 2013: Today afternoon was the 10th Edition of the Author’s Afternoon with Javed Akhtar as the author-in-the-chair addressing a robust gathering of guests and dignitaries. Javed was in conversation …
August 20, 2013 At the Desert Hues exhibition August 21, 2013: Yesterday evening I was at the art exhibition of artist bureaucrat Kiran Soni Gupta, IAS, called Desert Hues. The exhibition of her paintings at the ITC Art …
August 20, 2013 Meeting the President of India I was in Delhi yesterday August 19, 2013, with a delegation of Rajasthan Forum member artistes to meet the President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee. I had met the President a …
